food for thought: on Change

• “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin
  
  
• "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." – Buckminster Fuller
  
  
• “You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.” – Heraclitus
  
  
• “In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer
  
  
• “At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done – then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
  
• “Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.” – Henry Steele Commager
  
  
• “It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.” – Niccolo Machiavelli
  
  
• “In short, a change imposed is a change opposed.” – Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
  
  
• “There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.” – Washington Irving
  
  
• “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never again regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
  
  
• ”It isn’t the changes that do you in, it’s the transitions”. – William Bridges
  
  
• “Not in his goals but in his transitions man if great.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”– Leo Tolstoy
  
  
• “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” – Anais Nin